#yntcd video

[c4rvey0urnameint0mybedpost]

I noticed something in the YNTCD MV and the ME! MV.

The snake at the beginning of the ME! music video ends up turning into a bunch of butterflies and butterflies were something that was used to promote the Lover album. Anyways, there is actually a Moth that can use it’s wings to appear like a snake to predators!

It’s called and Atlas Moth, and whilst it’s not a butterfly, I noticed that one of the “Butterflies” on Taylor’s back tattoo in the beginning of the YNTCD MV actually look more like a moth than a butterfly!

Here’s the full tattoo and the one that I think looks more like a Moth.

And here’s the Atlas Moth! In the first picture you can see how they use their wings to appear as if they are snakes! They are pretty cool if you ask me.

It just makes me think all the more that she was going to come out during the Lover era, and it makes me so upset to think that if she was going too, she couldn’t for what ever reason.

Anyways, I was just watching some of her music videos and I’ve noticed some other little things too but I’ll post about them separately :))

#taylor swift #gaylor #lgbetty #lgbtq #gaylor swift #yntcd #me! #yntcd music video #atlas moth

[9w1ft]

what’s your favorite taylor lyric video? and which one do you think is the most cryptic in terms of hidden queerness and messages?

i think aesthetically my favorite lyric video has been the archer lyric video or the look what you made me so lyric video.

i will get back to you on which video i think is the most *cryptic* (the call it what you want lyric video is very much a contender but i want to think a bit more)

but i needed to mention how arguably nothing can beat the high that was this one-two punch😆

oh and i’m sorry how could i possibly forget the lover remix feat shawn mendes lyric video 🙈

#the me! lyric video followed up by the yntcd lyric video

[taylorrepdetective]

Just remembered that the romantic interest in the LH video is played by a black trans man. This is so cool. Its hard to even imagine Taylor doing this even 5 years ago.

#she’s really stepped up with representation and diversity in her videos the last few years #something that was noted in the IBYTAM but probably forgotten #YNTCD had great diversity but was missing this aspect

[miamignonette]

it’s interesting to see what taylor (or just her merch team lol) thinks is the most iconic look from every era bc sometimes i disagree very strongly. anyways tag what you’d choose bc i’m curious

#for debut i’d say the white dress on the album cover/the pic of her stepping on the stones in the water #for fearless i think it’s the silver sparkly tour dress #speak now is the purple dress on the album cover #red is the state of grace tour outfit #1989 is the seagull sweater on the cover #reputation is hard to pick but maybe the ready for it tour bodysuit #lover is probably the yntcd fur coat #folklore and evermore are both the cover outfits #and midnights is the orange and white crochet top from the lavender haze video #taylor swift

[imwretched]

if taylor had just edited the lover album down it would've been her best album by far

#if it was cruel summer / lover / the archer / ithk / paper rings / cornelia street #dbatc / london boy / sygb / false god / afterglow / inthaf / daylight #and maybe miss americana #and she got rid of iftye / the man / me! / yntcd it would've emaculate #like she'd still have the run upbeat hits like cruel summer/ithk/london boy #and the deep cuts like the archer/cornelia street/sygb #and it would be 13 songs #those 4 just tank the whole album to be frank like why did she do that and why did she choose 3 of them as the singles 💀 #it just made the album look bad #and don't get me wrong I loved the performances for me! and the music videos and all the hype of the release #but as an album it would've been so much stronger without them #erin talks #there are typos in this rant but please just ignore you do not see them

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

in case no one read the thing above, I MEAN MUSIC VIDEOS NOT THE SONGS

#some of yall just go searching for vanilla extract in the options without reading what the poll is about #doctor taylor swift #taylor swift is a lyrical genius #taylor swift is an angel #taylor nation #taylor swift #taylorstans #delicate #delicate taylor swift #delicate mv #anti hero #anti hero taylor swift #anti hero mv #blank space #blank space mv #ybwm #yntcd #lavender haze music video #lavender haze mv #lavender haze #ready for it #tumblr polls #polls polls polls polls #polls #polls polls polls #taylors version #taylornation #bad blood #you belong with me #you need to calm down

[lonelystarbuckslover13]

Taylor learnt from us not hearing that an old timey version of yntcd was playing in the background of the ME! music video so she turned the volume up when she played enchanted in the background of the bejeweled video lol

#like it’s so much clearer this time haha #low key I still can’t hear how it’s yntcd playing in the background of the me video lol

[hbogirls]

i hate when people say that taylor has no grasp of aesthetics in the work she directs because it's like..... she so so so clearly does. you might not like the aesthetics she tends to go for, but you cannot deny that she has a clear vision and executes that vision.

#i just saw non-swifties on twitter ripping the yntcd video which is so... like whatever #there's stuff to dislike but you cannot say that she didn't make the exact video she wanted to make lol #if anything gets muddled when she tries to go auteur filmmaker it's story. not aesthetics. #actually if anything makes me worried with her feature it's the prospect of her trying to write jokes

[cuntrytaylor]

we should have a hate crimes bracket that would be so beautiful

#by hate crimes i mean like. yntcd music video vs all orientations supernatural lgbt video etc etc #like objectively iffy things that are so funny in retrospect

[snowonthebeachftlana]

i do enjoy a todd in the shadows video from time to time but only if he doesn't speak on taylor

#i just wanted to watch him trashing yummy and then he started shit-talking reputation 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 #you could not pay me to watch any of his videos on lwymmd/me!/yntcd #sabtext

[youshouldseemyotherusername]

While YNTCD is on my mind:

I think part of why I had conflicted feelings on this is bc I felt a little betrayed that this wasn't a full coming out.

Everything pointed to it, but no words were spoken and maybe having these expectations for queer people now to "take a stand" and be vocally out as well as the in fighting .. just lead to taking this authentic and camp video as an insult.

#ts lyrics #ts #yntcd #gaylor swift #this girl needs an apology imo #we can talk about clues in every other song #every other music video #but we dont look at this one? the most out there

[queen-swift13]

Flashback to 3 years ago when I didn’t even admit to myself I was gay yet and I was absolutely obsessed with you need to calm down and did a photo shoot recreating the pool scenes from the music video😂💗🏳️‍🌈

#I totally just liked the song👀 #had nothing at all to do with my little closeted and in denial self #to this day one of my favorite photo shoots I’ve ever done #yntcd #you need to calm down #you need to calm down music video #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride month

[allamericansbitch]

You know what also sucks, the timing of all of this. Taylor gonna be performing in Florida where the don’t say gay bill is active and she’s gonna be performing yntcd, lighting the crowd in rainbow, having a stadium of people y’all ‘shade never made anybody less gay’ and giving so many people in that crowd comfort and letting them be seen in a place they’ve been actively silenced…. but all of that’s gonna be overshadowed by people projecting their sadness onto her and recording videos of her performing and being like ‘look at how sad she is because of the breakup 🥺’ ‘she chose this suprise song because of the breakup’ I just know it.

#tp #taylor swift #500+

[queercanon13]

The Karma music video is packed with queer and sapphic themes. But what’s with that yellow beret?

We all watched the Karma music video on Friday (or Saturday), right? And then we all watched it ten more times because there IS JUST SO MUCH THERE. Right?!

I can’t even begin to unpack the whole thing yet, but let’s talk about the yellow brick road scene.

Taylor is obviously wearing ruby slippers (“the rubies that I gave up”) alluding to Dorothy/the Wizard of Oz. But she’s not wearing the rest of Dorothy’s getup. That’s because she’s not Dorothy, but in fact a friend of Dorothy.

She’s holding a broom (lots of witchy themes from her lately) and blows a kiss of blue (iykyk) glitter to three grim reapers (the two SBs and…?).

She’s keeping her side of the street clean, which harkens to the YNTCD MV where she clearly shows which side of the street she’s on:

Other things of note: it appears there are daisies embroidered on her collar, as well as growing along the yellow brick road. Her braids are also looped (“your braids make a pattern”).

The yellow brick road itself may be a nod to Elton John and his album/song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Here are some of the lyrics from that song, as well as a generally accepted analysis of the lyrics:

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Seems like it would be super relatable to Taylor, right? Add in Elton John’s queerness/coming out journey, and the parallels continue.

There are probably a hundred other things I’m missing just from that scene alone, but what I really wanna talk about is the yellow beret, especially in light of current news surrounding Taylor.

When I saw the yellow beret, I furiously googled “yellow beret” + the names of Taylor’s muses, but I came up empty-handed. Because Taylor is specifically not wearing a Dorothy costume, I knew that fucking hat had to mean something. Then I remembered — isn’t yellow beret a military term? And we know she loves a good war story. To Google I went, and the results did not disappoint.

During the Vietnam war, all physicians in the US had a mandatory draft order. One of the ways to avoid the draft was to apply for a position with a Public Health Service program called the NIH Associates Training Program. Because the elite program was highly competitive, only a small percentage of doctors were able to serve their required military time without going to war.

Yellow beret was a self-deprecating and derogatory term used by and for doctors who avoided getting a green beret/going to war (yellow can be associated with cowardice, i.e. “yellow-bellied”) via the NIH program.

Sounding familiar? But wait there’s more.

Bob Seger wrote a song in 1966 called The Ballad of the Yellow Beret. It was written as a parody of the song The Ballad of the Green Berets. Here are some of the lyrics (I encourage you to read all of them!):

Verse 1: Fearless cowards of the USA // Bravely here at home they stay // They watch their friends get shipped away // The draft dodgers of the Yellow Beret

Okay, I’m seated.

Verse 3: Men who faint at the sight of blood // Their high-heeled boots weren't meant for mud // The draft board will hear their sob stories today // Only the best win the yellow beret

Oooookay.

Verse 4: Back at home a young wife waits // Her yellow beret has met his fate // He's been drafted for marching in a protest //Leaving her his last request

Are you screaming yet? Just wait.

Verse 5: Put a yellow streak down my son's back // Make sure that he never ever fights back // At his physical have him say he's gay // Have him win the yellow beret

And if that wasn’t enough, two of the last lyrics are “I've got a pimple on my trigger finger” (ew) and “well, we were planning on having children sometime soon” (devastating). These themes also align with The Great War, epiphany, etc.

But despite attempts to diminish their efforts through claims of cowardice, these “yellow beret” physician-scientists contributed to some of the most important and innovative medical research we have today. Dr. Fauci attended the training program, as well as nine others who went on to win Nobel Prizes.

Could it be that Taylor is trying to tell us that, while it looks like she dodged the draft (didn’t come out), she’s doing some important mastermind shit behind the scenes? Only time will tell, but since we are now at “dawn,” I believe daylight is soon to follow. ☀️

#gaylor #taylor swift #the eras tour #karma mv #karma taylor swift #karma is a cat #karma ft ice spice #karma remix #gaylor swift #swiftgron #kaylor

[gayloringinplainsight]

A list of all gaylor evidence cited in the NYT op-ed:

Lover era aesthetics giving bi flag

Me! Out Now! on Lesbian Visibility Day

Me! music video is “everything that makes me, me” including pride parade, rainbows, and turning down a man’s proposal for pussy cat

Entire YNTCD mv including bi flag hair, queer cast, and GLAAD reference

Surprise performance at Stonewall Inn

Christian Siriano dress and NYC pride rumors

Proud bracelet with bi colors insta post

Has to keep secrets just to keep her muse on Cruel Summer

The hundred thrown-out speeches in The Archer

Stepping out of 20 year dark night to let it go in Daylight

Spoken poem at end of Daylight

Lover house burning to the ground

Rainbow dresses forever

Trapped in glass closets and regular closes

Loie Fuller Serpentine Dance on rep tour

The Ladder on eras tour

Songs that appear to only fit a woman, e.g. Maroon and Hits Different

TVFN unfulfilled rhyme scheme

Emily Dickenson references

Hairpin references on two different albums

Prologue of rep album

Pronoun play, you and him

Hits Different live performance

#gaylor #gaylor swift #Taylor swift

[cursed-man-prayers]

Before folklore came out, I would tell people that liking Taylor Swift was the straightest thing about me. Then folklore, evermore, and Red TV came out. As I saw the queer themes in those albums, I began seeing them in reputation, 1989, Speak Now, Fearless, and debut. The themes have always been there, fluctuating in subtlety but steadily increasing since 1989. So why did I think of Taylor Swift as so quintessentially straight? You guessed it: Compulsory heterosexuality and heteronormativity.

Taylor was supposed to be universally relatable. When she explained her songs, she refrained from using gender-specific language. Us. We. That person. Someone. And people that as “Me. I. A man. That guy I told everyone I was dating.” We were told she dated men, and a woman dating a man = heterosexual. No other options.

Even now, Genius will remove lyric annotations that imply her lyrics might not be about a man. Even with Hits Different, Question…? and Maroon. Taylor says reputation is about Joe and swifties believe her bc “Taylor wouldn’t lie to us!!!” even though there’s so many inconsistencies with the narrative that Rep is about Joe.

To say outright or even imply that Taylor might write songs about women because she likes women is met with scores of comments about how we “shouldn’t speculate on her sexuality!!! she said she’s straight!!! stop being disrespectful!!!!” But Taylor, as she has never said the words “I’m gay” has never said the words “I’m straight.” What she has done is align herself with. LGBTQ artists (YNTCD music video, Phoebe feat., posting support for queer musicians on social media, and, of course, the Pride parade that is her list of openers for the Eras Tour).

If Taylor didn’t people thinking she’s queer, she would’ve thrown in “as a straight woman…” in her speech before performing Delicate at multiple Pride events, when being interviewed about her advocacy during the Lover era, or at literally any point in her adult life.

Writing about women from the male perspective is queer. Her dressing in drag for the Man music video and showing herself in bed with a woman is inherently queer. The way she writes songs about her love interests’ girlfriends is queer. People bend over backwards to justify the gay shit she does, the same thing people have done for centuries with Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and so many sapphic artists throughout history. Taylor Swift is THE songwriter of our generation. She IS the music industry. But swifties, and hetlors all the more, would rather believe she is stupid and ignorant rather than intentionally using phrases like “hairpin drop,” “lavender haze,” “all the bricks they threw at me,” “you’re the West Village.” When she describes her muses as having scarlet lips, having hair that falls into place like dominos and braids in a pattern, gorgeous, it’s just because she thinks men are really pretty I guess (insert MetGala 2016 Joe photo). When she describes men as toys, playthings, “dudes who give nothing,” she’s being satirical. When she says “weird rumors,” that can’t possibly refer to rumors about marriage, pregnancy, or her having had multiple children during the pandemic. It’s *weird* to say that Taylor is queer. It’s weird and bad and gross. Why? Because people saying this believe being queer is weird, bad, and gross.

But it’s not weird. Being queer is beautiful, a gift. And that gift comes with a world that hates who we are. Of course Taylor is too soft for all it. And I admire her softness, that she continues to write vulnerable music. Midnights (esp 3am Edition and Hits Different) holds her loudest lyrics. She’s never beating the rumors and she doesn’t want to. Even if she never says the words “I’m gay/bi/pan/a lesbian,” the eardrum-shattering volume of her lyrics is more than enough for me.

#gaylor swift #gaylor #taylor swift lyric analysis #queer #question…? #maroon #hits different #i swear you could hear a hairpin drop #midnights